Vlingo for Android now available for free

Responding to Google’s new Voice Actions app, Vlingo is now available for free in the Android Market.

According to Vlingo,

In many ways Voice Actions for Android is very similar to the Vlingo for Android product—just by pushing a widget button on the home screen you can speak to your Android phone and have Voice Actions turn your words into actions. Just like Vlingo you can speak to send a text message or an email, navigate to a business location, search the web, and much more. The Voice Actions business dialing feature is very similar to Vlingo’s SuperDialer—you just say “call ” such as “call Blue Ribbon Barbecue” and Voice Actions dials the business for you. It even goes farther in some areas—my favorite is setting the alarm clock on the phone just by speaking “Set alarm for 8 am.”

Vlingo points out that its app has other features not yet present in Voice Actions, such as our SafeReader feature that reads your incoming text and email messages to you. It also runs across all smartphones (iPhone, Android, RIM BlackBerry, Nokia Series 60, Windows Mobile).